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Badenoch's comments on Critical Race Theory aren't an aberration from the government, they aren't out of keeping with government statements over an extended period of time. There's been ministers talking

Solidarity with all in HE, students and staff, who are in varying degrees of nightmare at the moment.To staff, I know you are getting shot at from all sides. Even

This thread from Tom cuts through a lot of stuff and is a good explainer of why what is happening in Labour has broader democratic implications.As an historian of the

Agree with Sol. Didn't approve of GS endorsements for candidates in past, still don't now.The GS's preferred VP candidate (who she endorsed publicly) began tonight's #CoronaContract hustings with a promise

An e-ballot has landed in the inboxes of members @ExeterUCU on a proposed new collective agreeement.Please vote to reject.This document does not merely accept management’s flexibility to implement compulsory redundancies

What has been proposed today is an end to a recognisable version of the university as it has generally been understood in the UK. There are different 'ideas' of the

I think something we need to recognise is these things are habituated at an individual level. Neoliberal culture is particularly insidious in the UK because of the existing issues in

A brief thing; the GS has come in for some criticism in an online article today. Whether you agree with that or not, members having the right to criticise shd

Hard agree. As someone who amongst other things is an historian of the Labour right, specifically Crosland, I was customarily surprised/ unsurprised to see him on the Progress reading list.Reason

If anyone had any doubt that the intention of the marketisation project was to set up students and staff in opposition to one another as adversaries in a consumer system,